A Right and Significant Verdict on Bersih: By Kee Thuan Chye Malaysian Digest 25 July 2012 THE High Court has de...

By Kee Thuan Chye Malaysian Digest 25 July 2012 THE High Court has declared that Bersih (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections) is not unlawful. And rightly so. Although this comes as a blow to the Government, and especially the Home Minister, the Attorney-General (A-G) should not pursue an appeal. Doing so would hurt the Government’s image even more. It would appear to sensible Malaysians that the Government refused to admit wrong even when the evidence clearly showed it was wrong. Furthermore, the Government had responded positively to the Bersih 2.0 rally of July 9, 2011, by setting up a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to look into electoral reform. If it continued to insist on the quibble that Bersih 2.0 is unlawful, it would contradict itself, call to question the sincerity of its PSC move. It would appear to act in bad faith. After all, is it such a big issue t...